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  • Following message regularly appears in Samsung Galaxy Notifications: FacebookLog in to sync Facebook with your other applications When you tap on the message it opens a page with Facebook logo asking you to login into Facebook or create a new…

  • Update: August 2015 – If you are getting Outlook 0x800CCC13 error after upgrading to Windows 10, check this article. After many months of working absolutely fine, Gmail IMAP / SMTP account on MS Outlook 2010 started to misbehave. It was still receiving emails fine,…

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with Android 4.3. Occasionally following message appears in Notifications: Prevention informationAn application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device. It may be safe to delete an application obtained…

  • Acer W510 tablet / hybrid Intel Atom Processor Z2760 (Clovertrail) Windows 8.1 After updating Acer W510  to Windows 8.1 (and updating to the latest drivers provided by Acer), computer no longer resumes from sleep properly. Normally W510 resumes from sleep…

  • Issue Internet Explorer 11 stopped working on Windows 8.1. On startup it crashes with error “Internet Explorer has stopped working“. Internet Explorer has stopped working.Windows is checking for a solution to the problem…

  • Change your word file extension from .docx to .zip Go into the .zip archive and open file word\document.xml with any text editor.

  •   Hardware: Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Audio: Realtek ALC899 Video: Intel HD 4600 (will not be used) Ethernet: Intel I217V Graphics: Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX660 TI 2 x 128GB Crucial M4 SSD drives 1 x 2TB WD mechanical HDD CH-528T media…

  • Issue Heavily formatted two column Word document (docx) created in MS Word 2010. Everything looks fine until you print it. When printed, in one particular spot word “Optical” would be visible. This would print right on top of the normal…

  • Issue Certain in-house developed software update package fails to run properly on Windows 7 machines with UAC (User Account Control) enabled. The updater was run under administrator account with elevated privileges. After some investigation we concluded that issue was caused…

  • PDF files can normally be protected / encrypted in two different ways: Owner password. Also called print / edit password. Anyone can open and view the document, but printing, editing and copying can be prevented. Users must provide password to…

  • When .msi package installation via Group Policy fails and there are no good clues in Windows System or Application logs, it is good idea to enable verbose Windows Installer logging. This can be done either via Group Policy or Registry.

  • If you installing Windows 8 using legacy BIOS boot method, volume will be partitioned using old good MBR (Master Boot Record).If you install it using new UEFI boot method, volume will be partitioned as GTP (GUID Partition Table). This normally doesn’t…